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Expressive Therapies

All expressive therapies are designed with one goal in mind: to assist those with mental illness better express themselves on the path towards their healing. A variety of methods exist simply because clients may respond well only to one or a few types of expressive therapies.

Expressive therapies are usually used within a counseling program for a client.

Sites in Expressive Therapies

Expressive Therapies Concepts
A non-profit organization dedicated to education, service, and research in expressive therapies and related disciplines. Informative across many methods of expressive therapies, articles, and research efforts.
Mental Health Matters
Mental health research, alternative treatments for all psychological disorders-research, alternative treatment, emotional support, mental health law, statistics, and professional resources.
Mental Health
Extensive directory of therapies and medical concerns. Select a link to get a list of related sites.
Creating Changes Counseling - Kentucky
Counseling provided that includes the use of expressive therapies (art and play). Information about the Center, key staff members, FAQs, a questionnaire, articles, tips, and resources.
The Inward Eye
Center for learning in art therapy and imagery. Interactive guided imagery, personal totem pole process, and the inward eye process. Workshops and therapy offered in Philadelphia or will travel to offer workshops to groups.
Karen M. Haughey - Art for Healing
Group and private classes that assist in achieving personal creativity and artistic expression in the realm of writing, painting, and designing via mixed medium in watercolor, pastel, collage and pencil. Also offers music therapy and paintings for sale.
Adventures in Creativity
Descriptions of services, workshops, and organized trips designed to unlock one's creativity, offered by expressive therapist Elizabeth Feld, based in Paris, France. Includes graphics and relevant links.
Anagenasis Center for Integrative Design and Healing
Introduces a new expressive and creative arts process called Integrative Design that combines psychology, dance/movement therapy, and architecture to support self-awareness and transformational growth.
Creative Arts Therapies
A webring for a broad range of expressive therapies.
Voice Movement Therapy USA
Voice Movement Therapy (VMT) is an expressive arts therapy, the main province of which is not the spoken word, its cognitive content or articulation, but the affective aspects of vocal sound. Information and workshop schedule.
NCATA- National Coalition of Arts Therapies Associations
Information on music therapy, dance/movement therapy, drama therapy, psychodrama, and poetry therapy.
Voice Movement Therapy in the UK
A description of the work, links to similar sites, and schedule of VMT sessions with Christine Isherwood, VMTR, in London, England.

sub categories in Expressive Therapies

Art Art
Guided Imagery Guided Imagery
Play Play
Psychodrama Psychodrama
Sensory Integration Sensory Integration
Dance and Movement Dance and Movement
Music Music
Poetry, Creative Writing, and Journaling Poetry, Creative Writing, and Journaling
Schools and Instruction Schools and Instruction
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